The Three Witnesses

The glorious plan which God has given, Buried beneath the liquid grave,

To bring a ruined world to heaven, To know the Spirit's power to save,

Was framed in Christ by the new birth, And feel the virtue of his blood,

Was seal'd in heaven, was seal'd on earth. Are witnesses ordained of God.

As in the heavens they all agree, In heaven they all agree in one,

The record's given there by Three, The Father, Spirit, and the Son.

On earth three witnesses are given, On earth these witnesses agree,

To lead the sons of earth to heaven. The water, blood, and Spirit, three.

Jehovah, God the Father, 'sone; One great connecting link is given

Another, God's eternal Son; Between the sons of earth and heaven

The Spirit does with them agree- The Spirit seals us here on earth,

The witnesses in heaven are three. In heaven records our second birth.

Nor are we, in the second birth, If we, on earth, possess those three,

Left without witnesses one earth, Mysterious saving unity,

To grope, as in eternal night, The Book of Life will record bear,

About the way to endless light. Our names are surely written there. T.

The Times and Seasons, is edited by John Taylor.

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